Políticas de currículo: lutas pela significação no campo da disciplina História

Abstract

This thesis focuses on the curriculum policies which are inserted in the analysis of articulatory processes in the subject field of History. I defend that Ernesto Laclau´s Discourse Theory is more effective for the understanding of how subjects act in the making of policies and how their meanings are produced and hegemonized through discourse. I articulate the methodological and theoretical contributions of the Discourse Theory to the contributions of Policy Cycle Approach proposes by Stephen Ball, retaking is defense of curriculum as text but putting in question the risk of the reintroduction of a centrality in the process of the meaning of the policies. I equally link the Discourse Theory to the Goodson´s History of School Subjects, recovering his defense that the meanings of the school subjects are negotiated in the processes of hegemonization, but I put in question the risk of essencialization of the subjects as well as their subjectivation being prior to the political articulation. Based on this hybrid theoretical construction I defend the conception of curriculum as a discoursive cultural policy and the delimitation of a subject discoursive field of History as a field that sets new meanings to the curriculum policies. I reinforce the arguments about the potentialities of the Discourse Theory making analogies with language by giving centrality to the imbricated concepts of metonimization and metaphorization and those of logic of the significant. I submit the selected empiric material to analysis based on a tool of the Corpus Linguistics tools, the program Wordsmith Tools 5, through one of its instruments the Concord. Thus in the issues of The Brazilian Magazine of History (Revista Brasileira de História) and of the History Magazine Today (Revista História Hoje) publications of the History National Association (ANPUH); in official documents such as Reports, Directions, Orientations and National Parameters (Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais), among other texts released by the Brazilian State between 1960s and 2010; and in six interviews, I identify the way in which in these previously mentioned texts the historic knowledge is meant by highlighting the superposition of meanings. Finally I defend how meanings are dislocate and condensed simultaneously in the processes of signification, making the conception embedded in the metaphor History as construction hegemonic. I identify subjectivation processes in which social actors constitute an identity of History by defending a centrality of the historic knowledge and in which they act in antagonism to others that constitute a pedagogic identity in the struggle for the hegemonization of meanings in the curriculum policies.